Gearing
Gear·ing
Gearing
n.
- Harness.
- The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of a locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery. (Mach.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Frictional gearing
- See under Frictional.
- Gearing chain
- an endless chain transmitting motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel.
- Spur gearing
- gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.